Here's an idea which i have been thinking about for a while: I'm using continuator or crossfader sometimes to quickly create mixes from submitted tracks. It would be great if continuator had 3 modes: punch-in (its main feature), full-overlap and crossfade. Then, it would be cool if one could give a track a CONTINUATOR-tag, which can have the value "punch", "overlap" or "crossfade". Before doing the transition to the next track, continuator woud check if the current file has a continuator-tag and if yes let the tag-value override the default-behaviour. So, if the current track would have a "crossfade"-value in the tag, then continuator would crossfade from the current into the next track.

This would be great for quickly creating mixes or amateur-DJing - but i dont know if you consider it in the scope of your plugin.

The "toggle" menu item still a little check sign on it when the plugin is activated. It seems that you forgot to remove the "checkable" property on this one (the former "enable" menu item).

Speaking of amateur DJing, do you think it's possible to add an APPLY button, as I proposed in my last post ? That's because when I want to change a parameter value, I have to stop the playback for my change to take effect. It would be a real plus for live mixing to be able to change values while playing

The "toggle" menu item still a little check sign on it when the plugin is activated. It seems that you forgot to remove the "checkable" property on this one (the former "enable" menu item).

This check sign should indicate the current state.

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Speaking of amateur DJing, do you think it's possible to add an APPLY button, as I proposed in my last post ? That's because when I want to change a parameter value, I have to stop the playback for my change to take effect. It would be a real plus for live mixing to be able to change values while playing[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Thanks cpt footure! Works fine. I know I'm pissing you off, but may I ask for you opinion on:

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BTW, can you make it working with foo_skip? I posted a problem report here: [a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=293635]http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....ndpost&p=293635[/url](foo_skip does skip a track if a tag is matching. But continuator does always start some milliseconds, depending on its configuration)

CONTINUATOR-tag value | Behaviour on transition to next track-----------------------+-----------------------------------------off | do nothinggapkill | trim silence onlyoverlap | do simple overlapping without searching for a punch-in pointpunchin | search for punch-in point and overlap there (continuator's main-feature)crossfade | crossfade to next track-----------------------+-----------------------------------------

Even cooler, but maybe too much work to implement: when using overlap or crossfade, then be able to specify the transition-length in the continuator tag(so, length of crossfade/overlapping) like for example "overlap,5000" would mean "do a 5seconds overlap at transition to next track".

Together with foo_quicktag(and maybe a continuator-column in one's formatting) this feature could be used on the fly easily :)

Speaking of amateur DJing, do you think it's possible to add an APPLY button, as I proposed in my last post ? That's because when I want to change a parameter value, I have to stop the playback for my change to take effect. It would be a real plus for live mixing to be able to change values while playing :cool:[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=294867"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

I don't know what's up with my settings but my tracks don't crossfade. The end of the mp3 will fade, but at the end, the next song starts right in. The crossfader plugin that comes in the foobar iinstallation works fine.Any clues?

CONTINUATOR-tag value | Behaviour on transition to next track-----------------------+-----------------------------------------off | do nothinggapkill | trim silence onlyoverlap | do simple overlapping without searching for a punch-in pointpunchin | search for punch-in point and overlap there (continuator's main-feature)crossfade | crossfade to next track-----------------------+-----------------------------------------

Even cooler, but maybe too much work to implement: when using overlap or crossfade, then be able to specify the transition-length in the continuator tag(so, length of crossfade/overlapping) like for example "overlap,5000" would mean "do a 5seconds overlap at transition to next track".

We'd need a better foo_quicktag then...

The problem with foo_quicktag is, you will not be able to concatenate to your tag. (e.g. you can not add ",5000" to an existing "overlap")

I don't know what's up with my settings but my tracks don't crossfade. The end of the mp3 will fade, but at the end, the next song starts right in. The crossfader plugin that comes in the foobar iinstallation works fine.Any clues?[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=295363"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

CONTINUATOR-tag value | Behaviour on transition to next track-----------------------+-----------------------------------------off | do nothinggapkill | trim silence onlyoverlap | do simple overlapping without searching for a punch-in pointpunchin | search for punch-in point and overlap there (continuator's main-feature)crossfade | crossfade to next track-----------------------+-----------------------------------------

Even cooler, but maybe too much work to implement: when using overlap or crossfade, then be able to specify the transition-length in the continuator tag(so, length of crossfade/overlapping) like for example "overlap,5000" would mean "do a 5seconds overlap at transition to next track".

Together with foo_quicktag(and maybe a continuator-column in one's formatting) this feature could be used on the fly easily

btw: At the moment Continuator does no fade-in. It just starts the new track at the point where the old track reaches a specific threshold.[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=295386"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

The problem with foo_quicktag is, you will not be able to concatenate to your tag. (e.g. you can not add ",5000" to an existing "overlap")[a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=295384"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

Not necessary - you can just create submenus in quicktag to overwrite the previous tag-value completely:

mainmenu:remove tagofftrim silenceoverlappunch-incrossfade

overlap and crossfade would have submenus with a selection of timespans... these submenu options would then just overwrite the previous value with i.e. "overlap,5000". So, i don't see any reason for concetanating values. From a coders POV it may be the more "clean" way to do it, but from a practical POV it is not necessary.

Hi,continuator is not to blame for this behaviour. The problem lies within the (crossfading?, maybe DirectSound v2.5? Shit, that's me also) output plugin. foo_skip seems to 'hit' the skip button just after a new track has started. I'm not sure if i can do anything about it.

Why make it depend on a specific tag, and specific contents? It could be made configurable through TAGZ, which would be worth it, IMHO.

Let the user choose if he wants %CONTINUATOR% or %FADING%

Let the user choose what to check for. $right(%FADE LENGTH%,4)

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Yeah cool - one more ambigious tag-standard, so that public formatting-strings cannot support such features. I on my side can say, that if the tag-name/value becomes configurable, then i (and probably every other public formatting-strings author) will not support it for obvious reasons - because we CANNOT.